Hi!! So I'm really new to reading fanfiction, but I've read literally all your Pynch fics and I'm obsessedddd! *that sounds so creepy sorry but like you're literally my hero HAHA* Do you have any Pynch fanfic recommendations for newbies such as myself?
Aah thank you so much!! And no that's not creepy that's such a great compliment!! So I have previous recs here and this post has great canon compliant recs in the reblogs! Also you should check out @uncertainglobalfuture 's fic recs they have great recs too!
Now here are some more recs in order of their word counts:
August slipped away (into a moment of time) by @alteridemlynch - 1k - Canon compliant- Adam's leaving for school. Ronan reflects on their summer together, and knows he can't hold him back. (Based on August by Taylor Swift)
We'll take it slow (and grow as we go) by @pynches - 1k - Canon compliant- What do you do when St. Agnes is really cold? You share your hoodie and your bed of course!
This and more I sat divining by @astudyinfreewill - 1k- Canon compliant- The thing of it was, Ronan thought glumly, that Chainsaw was a filthy little traitor. It was hard enough to stop himself from spilling all of his secrets in front of Parrish; he didn’t need his psychopomp – one of his own secrets! – to expose him like this. Ronan had spent a long time trying to hide the truth of his feelings from himself. He had done this by keeping them mired in self-loathing and buried under self-destructiveness. But something had changed over the summer. The problem was that once he’d started – once he’d thrown open the floodgates – he’d been unable to stop feeling those feelings.
There’s dirt under my nails and fire in my heart by @tinyarmedtrex - 4k - AU- Ronan is fine being a single dad. He’s never minded that it was just him and Opal, his semi-adopted daughter. But when Adam, Opal’s substitute teacher, wanders into his life it forces Ronan to reconsider his perpetual bachelor status
What Happens When You Crash A Car by @fcstation1063 - 4k - Canon divergent- When Gansey gets called up to DC to help his mother, he makes a deal with Ronan. Ronan will show up and be presentable at Mrs. Gansey's party the night before the Senate election, possibly with a date. In exchange, Ronan gets to drive the Pig for three weeks. Ronan crashes the car, and ends up falling for the mechanic who fixes it
Skinny fleas by @hklnvgl - 15k - Canon divergent- “I don’t think I can wait ‘til Monday to keep reading,” Adam confessed, and it was the first time Aurora had seen him smile. He was missing a tooth.
“What’s it about?” Blue Sargent asked, also coming to the desk with the latest issue in a horror story compilation collection between her hands.
Adam bit his bottom lip before turning to face her. “Dragons,” he said, in a somewhat firm whisper.
That made Matthew’s head snap up.
“Dragons are cool!”
(School librarian Aurora Lynch befriends second-grader Adam Parrish)
We Fit All Adding Up by @toast-the-unknowing - 15k- Canon divergent- It's fifth grade and Adam is new to this school, new to this house, and new to having friends
A favour shared by @etoilegarden - 50k - Canon divergent- “That was on me. I’m Adam. Parrish. Ethan’s my brother.”
“Oh,” Ronan said, his surprise evident in his voice, “I thought he said - I was pretty sure he said you were his dad.”
“No,” Adam said, “he probably said ‘Adad’. He does that sometimes.”
Broken Things and Homecomings by @daisyapples - 90k - AU- Ronan Lynch has just returned from war; hot deserts, gunfire and bad memories. He's not sleeping or eating and the only thing keeping him functioning is his army buddy Noah. Adam Parrish got out. He got out of Henrietta, and then he got dragged back in by his dad's funeral and his mom's illness. Now he's back at Boyds trying to figure out how his electrical engineering masters ended with him becoming a mechanic
Finding that love song by @lydia-st-james - 190k- Canon divergent- Ronan Lynch dealt with his father’s sudden death by plunging into music. With high school coming to a close, and without any ambition to go to college, Ronan convinces his best friends to start a band. The only problem? They’re in need of a vocalist, and the young mechanic with the perfect voice is playing hard to get. (In other words, the gang makes a band AU.)